Nadine Gordimer
Nadine Gordimer
Nadine Gordimerwas a South African writer, political activist and recipient of the 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature. She was recognized as a woman "who through her magnificent epic writing has – in the words of Alfred Nobel – been of very great benefit to humanity"...
NationalitySouth African
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth20 November 1923
taken loss preparation
it's impossible to conquer all fear and loss by preparation. There are always sources of desolation that aren't taken into account because no one knows what they will be.
I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
expectations desert
A desert is a place without expectation.
facts happened
The facts are always less than what really happened.
beautiful country reality
The country of the tourist pamphlet always is another country, an embarrassing abstraction of the desirable that, thank God, does not exist on this planet, where there are always ants and bad smells and empty Coca-Cola bottles to keep the grubby finger-print of reality upon the beautiful.
legs nine faces
I'm forty-nine but I could be twenty-five except for my face and my legs.
change thinking support
Very often we support change, and then are swept away by the change. I think that...you just make your own response to your own generation. A response adequate to your time.